Certified Heart Breaker

A 72-year-old Malaysian man married for the 53rd time and insisted he was no playboy despite some marriages lasting just days. Kamarudin Mohamad's latest betrothal was also his first. He remarried his first "ex-wife" after divorcing her in 1958. In between, he married 51 other women, including an Englishwoman and two Thais.

He said all his previous marriages ended in divorce, except his last wife who died of cancer. "My shortest marriage lasted for two days several years ago and the longest was with my last wife, a Thai woman from Songkhla, with whom I was married for 20 years."